Sourdough bread for beginners

Our sourdough journey started when I attended a workshop in Goa conducted by the ever so awesome Sujit Sumitran. Spending a day in an old Portuguese house talking about the science of grains and the health benefits of fermentation while we stretched, folded and tried to cooperate with our dough, was far more than I expected. And for someone who has suffered with gluten intolerance for a long time it was just the push I needed to dive into the ocean of sourdough and I took Jini along with me!

For our first bread together we stuck exactly to the recipe that I worked on in the class since I wanted to first walk down a familiar road before going into unfamiliar territory. The process explained below has been taken directly from Sujit and is an easy bread to start with.